Equatorial ionospheric bubble precursor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Keskinen, M J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY PERTURBATION; IONOSPHERIC DENSITY PERTURBATION; LAYER-LIKE STRUCTURES; LOWER IONOSPHERE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISSIPATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; F REGION; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77952163341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042963     Document Type: Article

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